Datalore
Datalore
This Story: Season 1 Episode 13 (production code 114)
TNG Overall: Episode 13
Trek Overall: Story 113, Episode 115
Airdate: 18 Jan 1988
Written by Robert Lewin & Maurice Hurley
Teleplay by Robert Lewin & Gene Roddenberry
Directed by Rob Bowman
Notes
- The evil brother plot line was suggested by Brent Spiner himself.
- The second and final appearance of Biff Yeager as Chief Engineer Argyle. Was also the only referenced season 1 chief engineer to appear more than once.
- The crystalline entity that appears in this episode would return in the season five episode “Silicon Avatar“.
- Troi is absent from this episode.
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— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) September 28, 2024
We get the standard sci-fi trope, the "evil brother" plot. We get to meet Data's prototype, named "Lore" - hence the ep's title. Overall this is a kind of a meh episode - there's better Lore appearances later on. pic.twitter.com/I3cbuSnfuh
#StarTrekMarathon Star Trek TNG Ep 13 - Datalore - 18 Jan 1988 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) September 28, 2024
However, Brent Spiner's playing two different version of the same character is done very well. Plot goes as you'd expect. Brother turns up, everyone's excited, he goes evil/rogue and good guy has to save the day. pic.twitter.com/FCk03W1U0Y